Former Newcastle United midfielder Yohan Cabaye was back on a Premier League pitch on Wendesday night – and he’s clearly lost none of his combative attitude.

Cabaye, who has been out for a month with a groin injury, wasn’t in the Paris Saint Germain squad that knocked Chelsea out of the Champions League but he was at the centre of the action after the game as he clashed with controversial striker Diego Costa.

Costa had been a chief irritant all game and Cabaye, dressed in a PSG coat and shoes, was involved in an ugly altercation with the forward after the game that saw the pair having to be seperated.

Although Cabaye’s intervention will have reminded Newcastle fans what their former midfield is up to, the playmaker’s role for PSG is far removed from the talismanic presence that he was at St James’ Park.

He’s started 10 times this season but has only played 90 minutes twice for PSG. He’s come off the bench eight times but has played just 56 minutes in the Champions League this season.

United fans voted him the player they most wanted to sign back in January but talk of him coming back to Tyneside – possibly in a swap deal with Moussa Sissoko – was fanciful. Still, he may well be made available at the end of the season – and has lost none of his fighting spirit.